jQuery Animate Message with jQuery Form Plugin

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I am having a problem using the jquery Form Plugin. I have a form that is setup that I would like to animate the errors/success when a user submits incorrect information or gives the user a succes message when then enter correct information.

I would like the different messages to slide into view when being displayed but right now they just pop into view. How do I make it animate or rather slide into view? The page is question is http://capnhud.host22.com/sampleform2.html

The code I am using is:

$(function() { 
    // bind form using ajaxForm 
    $('#myForm').ajaxForm({ 
        // target identifies the element(s) to update with the server response 
        target: '.message', 
 
        // success identifies the function to invoke when the server response 
        // has been received; here we apply a fade-in effect to the new content 
        success: function() { 
            $('.message').slideDown('slow'); 
        } 
				error: function() {
						$('.message').slideDown('slow');
				}
		}); 
});

$.fn.clearForm = function() {
  return this.each(function() {
	var type = this.type, tag = this.tagName.toLowerCase();
	if (tag == 'form')
	  return $(':input',this).clearForm();
	if (type == 'text' || type == 'password' || tag == 'textarea')
	  this.value = '';
	else if (type == 'checkbox' || type == 'radio')
	  this.checked = false;
	else if (tag == 'select')
	  this.selectedIndex = -1;
  });
};

But no matter what this does not slideinto view it just pops